Grimmy becomes Travie McCoy
Scott had arranged a Big Weekend surprise with Olly Murs. During “Wrapped Up”, Nick Grimshaw would appear on stage and perform Travie McCoy’s rapid featured verse rather than allowing the usual recorded vocal to play.
Grimmy heard the plan on Breakfast and immediately realised how fast the rap was. Scott sent him images of Travie’s most distinctive outfits and expected a full recreation in front of thousands in Norwich, treating the booking as another complicated idea that had somehow become real.
What makes a potato cheeky?
Americans on Twitter had become confused by British descriptions of a “cheeky Nando’s”. Chris could not understand the difficulty, arguing that almost any food or drink could become cheeky when chosen spontaneously.
Scott challenged Radio 1’s chief lad to explain the concept to a café. Chris asked whether it served a cheeky potato, then launched into scenarios involving football matches, hotel bars, half-time food and friends with names such as Dossard.
The person on the phone offered ordinary potatoes and double-cooked fries but repeatedly said they had no idea what a cheeky potato was. Each new explanation introduced more lads, travel and drinking without clarifying the order, proving that the phrase was much harder to define than Chris had claimed.
A girlfriend nobody has met
Scott noticed a friend posting a photograph with a girlfriend whom the rest of their group had never met. Opportunities had repeatedly arisen, but she was always unavailable whenever the friends suggested including her.
Chris proposed that the man might have exaggerated his life at the start of the relationship and now feared his friends would expose the stories. He admitted telling his own girlfriend that he had been in a band, even playing her somebody else’s recording and identifying himself in the background.
Wednesday’s games
Scott delivered Bamboleo Wednesday for stone masons, ice-cream sellers, drivers and listeners revising. He also played One Direction’s “No Control” in response to the fans’ campaign, hoping the decision might finally clear the repeated requests from his timeline.
Alice Levine, still addressed as Barbara Windsor, played Real or No Real. The facts included Florence + the Machine’s supposed original name Toxic Cockroaches and whether pigeons could become tanned, leaving the programme with a suitable mixture of pop music, animals and phrases nobody could explain.
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